Need to Review Calculus 1 & 2 (1131/1132)?
A Few Useful Links:
Paul’s Online Math Notes, Calculus III
3D Function Grapher (also does Parametric Surfaces!)
Learning Activities, By Section:
| Section | Topic | Learning Activities |
| 12.1 | Three-Dimensional Coordinate Systems | Visualizing the Octants |
| 12.6 | Cylinders and Quadric Surfaces | Quadric Surfaces |
| 12.2 | Vectors | Visualizing Vectors in 3D |
| 12.3 | The Dot Product | Dot Products in 3D
Direction Angles (*useful application) Projections (*useful application) |
| 12.4 | The Cross Product | Cross Products
Volume of a Parallelepiped (*useful application) |
| 12.5 | Equations of Lines & Planes | Line in 3D (static) vs Line in 3D (variable) |
| 14.1 | Functions of Several Variables | A Gallery of Examples |
| 14.2 | Limits and Continuity
(*interesting topic, neither covered in class nor on exams) |
Limits Handout |
| 14.3 | Partial Derivatives | Cross Sections |
| 14.4 | Tangent Planes and Linear Approximation | Linear Approximation |
| 14.5 | The Chain Rule | |
| 14.6 | Directional Derivatives and the Gradient Vector | Directional Derivatives Video |
| 14.7 | Maximum and Minimum Values | Max and Min Video |
| 14.8 | Lagrange Multipliers | Absolute Max/Min Video |
| 15.1 | Double Integrals over Rectangles | Double Integrals over Rectangles Video
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| 15.2 | Double Integrals over General Regions | Double Integrals over General Regions Video |
| 15.3 | Double Integrals in Polar Coordinates | |
| Exam 1 | Exam 1 Practice Problems (solutions) | |
| 15.6 | Triple Integrals | Modeling Solids Handout (Play-Doh!)
Surface Area Video (*helpful for Chapter 16) |
| 15.9 | Change of Variables in Multiple Integrals | Change of Variables Video |
| 15.7 | Triple Integrals in Cylindrical Coordinates | Visualizing Cylindrical Coordinates |
| 15.8 | Triple Integrals in Spherical Coordinates | Visualizing Spherical Coordinates
Basic Shapes in Spherical Coordinates |
| 13.1 | Vector Functions | A Space Curve |
| 13.2
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Derivatives and Integrals of Vector Functions | |
| 13.3 | Arc Length | Linear Approximation of Arc Length |
| 16.2 | Line Integrals (Scalar Functions) | |
| 16.1 | Vector Fields | Simple 2D Vector Field |
| 16.2 | Line Integrals (Vector Fields) | |
| 16.3 | The Fundamental Theorem for Line Integrals | Fundamental Theorem for Line Integrals Video |
| 16.4 | Green’s Theorem | Green’s Theorem Video
Summary of Line Integrals (methods and deciding what to use) |
| Exam 2 | Exam 2 Practice Problems (solutions) | |
| 16.5 | Curl and Divergence | |
| 16.6 | Parametric Surfaces and Their Areas | A Gallery of Examples |
| 16.7 | Surface Integrals (Scalar Functions) | |
| 16.7 | Surface Integrals (Vector Fields) | |
| 16.9 | Divergence Theorem | |
| 16.8 | Stokes’ Theorem | Summary of Surface Integrals (decision-making and methods) |